Stitchers

Anne Hart-Davies is an embroiderer on the Massachusetts tapestry panel. A resident of Kingston, Massachusetts, she has been stitching for more than fifty years, having learned from her mother — an avid stitcher who set her to work on her first crewel piece at age fifteen. Before America's Tapestry she practiced beading, cross stitch, canvaswork, and surface embroidery including crewel and raised work.

On the panel she has worked in French knots, feather stitch, leaf stitch, and Bayeux stitch, with the French knot her favorite, and she picked up the Bayeux stitch as a new technique along the way. Though she came to Massachusetts from New York in 1979, she considers herself a Massachusetts native. She was drawn to the project by the chance to contribute to an important piece of the nation's future history and to promote the art of stitching, and she came away having learned about the importance of cocoa to the soldiers and the Colony. Her hope for the 250th is that Americans can come together as one country to celebrate the milestone.